Spenoza

The wisdom of Baruch 'Spinny' Spinoza & Spencer 'Spenny' Matthews

[spinozamatthews]

Respect.

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but it’s fucking hard to respect you when you allow me to cheat on you.”

[spinozamatthews]

blame.

"Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them. If you break your leg, you break your leg. I think you can only blame yourself – you must be doing something wrong if you hurt yourself.”

[spinozamatthews]

"After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile... I resolved at last to try to find out whether there was anything which be the true good… whether there was something which, once found and acquired, would continuously give me the greatest joy, to eternity. I'm a 21st century metrosexual man, and surely enough social taboos have been broken down nowadays that a man can have regular beauty treatments and not have to keep them a secret. So I went to see top London facialist Debbie Thomas at her spa on Brompton Road."

[spinozamatthews]

“Why did I leave I'm a Celebrity after just three days? The simple answer is that I screwed up, and have some explaining to do. When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. Vanity, I suppose, had been the reason for wanting to bulk up a bit for the fight. Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. I had intended to come off the pills gradually, but there was no time to do this before I reached the jungle.”

[spinozamatthews]

“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theatre, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another. It was entertaining. The bed wasn't quite big enough for the six of us, but we managed it anyway.”

[spinozamatthews]

"The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. Besides, she made it clear that she was really into me. It seemed reasonable as I was wearing my favourite shirt."

[spinozamatthews]

"I'm so honest with everyone. Maybe it's a downfall. Though no legacy is so rich as honesty."

[spinozamatthews]

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but you're an embarrassment to social situations."